Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1887-12-12

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eseh persons ars $50 described In the text
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taesr own great lre1sgressl0ss There Are IA
essry community ana every eA2Ech watch
dogs. No fssl sailed u.-0a - kseP their sges
O. others sud gsosl fhsy are fuii q saspl-
cons they ~oAzer L tat nab Is net ais
scnest Il ts3t nasa j. net Uac.eAn II there Is
not soneethirg ssons sseas lbs otssT nsa
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vsroas. NCltilrzx ars alSsys the Fret - sHlea
earrloA Itssy are self &2peintea detsctises
lzy tais d9~n As FGls svlt50Vt cay exception
that those psopls WHO have he most faults
themselves are nloss Eaerciless ia their watch
ing q others Fftn ssalp OF bead 10 sole u
tcet theF are fail II lealolsies and hyp<rcriti-
etsEns. taey spen1 tEeir life in bunting Tor
nauSkFais ani lnud tgFiles, instead u hunting
tor Rocky lncaEtaln eagle always for some
thing mean instead 81 something grand.
They look ~ tae.r nei shhors' irIpertegfsQns
through n.iertssoz,e a'i4 look a their own
anperlectioas through = telescope upside
i0~n Twenty faaits q their own donot hart
them - much a. ons fault Of somebody else
Their neishborS' inlqerftstions are ike gna.~
aud they strain them cat their own imperiec-
tions are Ike ssnleis and they swallow them
But iest some might think they escape the
scrutiny Of thu text, have % tell You that
ne ali come under the divine satire when ws
make the questions Of iime more prominent
than the ques,io Of eternity. Come now,
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all tempted t. make the question, Where
shall live nowi greater than the question,
Where shall live foreverl How shall get
more dollars hsrei greater than the questiSn.
How shall lay up treaS ires IN heavens The
question, How shall pay my debts 10 manl
greater than the question. How shall meet
my obligations 20 Godl the question, How
shall gain the worlds greater than the que,-
ton, What IL lose lay souli the question,
Why did God let sin come into the world'
greater than the question, How shall ] get
&c extirpated from my naalrei the question,
What shall do with the twenty or forty on
seventy years of my sublunar existence;
greater than the question, What shall do
with the millions OF cycles Of my post terres
trial existencei Time. how small il is.
Eternity, how vast il Isl The former more
dioAShbHcaDt III comparison Win the istttf
than gnat is Insignificant when compared
with a camel. We lodged the text We
said, THAT doesn't mean me, and that doesn't
mean me, ana with ruinous benevolence
we are giving the whole sermon away.
But let US all surrender 20 the charge.
What an ado about things here. What poor
preparation for great eternity. As though
a n,innow were larger than bchemoth. a,
though swallow tool; wider circuit than an
albatross, as though nettlc were taller than
a Lebanon cedar, as though a gnat Were
greater than a camel, IS though minute
were longer than century, SO though time
were higher, desper, broader than eternity
SO the text which flashed with lightning oil
wit as Chris. uttered il. is followed by the
crashing thunders of awful catastrophe 4
those who make the questions OF time creates
than the questions OF the future, the oncom
ing, overshadowing future. O, eternity
eternity. cternityl